Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-29
STRUCK AN UNLUCKY TOWN.
A Syndicate of Circus Gambler
 Cleaned Out I'm Laramie.

A Syndicate of Circus Gamblers
 Cleaned Out i'm Laramie.
 From the Laramie Boomerang.l
 For once the circus did not take more money out of Laramie than it left here, directly and indirectly, and the adverse circumstances under which the big shows gave several hundred citizens about five cents worth of exhibition for one dollar a head admission are offset by the fact that there was left here between three and five thousand dollars in solid cash, for which the losers received no equivalent whatever, except the satisfaction of dealing with, as they expressed it themselves, ffthe squarest men they ever encountered over the green cloth"
 Accompanying the circus was small syndicate of gamblers who had had pretty near their own way all the way from Port land to this city, having given battle and defeated faro's hosts everywhere along the line. From Portland they carried off six teen thousand dollars and from Butte twelve thousand dollars. It is claimed that they 'Fbroke the bank" st Shoshone Falls, slew the tiger at Ogden and vanquished foes of the same species at Green River and Rawlins. They were blooded, and they swooped down on the Gem City with
  city in proportion to it's wealth and the size of the menagerie They reached the city about 9 a. m. and at once started in search of the enemy. They wanted game with limit, and when they fell up against Charley Whitman and Sam Gleason, who deal the game at Clcve's old place, they got what they were looking for, and by ten o'clock opened the battle.
 They had 8 limit of fifty dollars part of the time and one hundred dollars the rest, and could have had it as much higher as they desired. At first the fortunes of war appeared to remain with the invaders, who had been glutted with victories elsewhere, but the tide turned against them as the day wore on, and their banners dropped lower as the evening shadows fell over a field they would not yet surrender. There was no Joshua to command the sun to stand still. 1 but by the electric light an unbroken front I was presented to the local forces of King Faro.
 The news that there was big game on hand was noised about town, and a hundred or more interested spectators dropped in and spent the night in watching the plucky strangers pay down their gold and green backs for yellow ivory chips at five dollars per chip, and lose them as fast as the cards could be turned. The playing finally settled down to one man, whose own resources and his credit with his friends were apparently unlimited. He seldom made bet as low as twenty dollars, and generally had from one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars on 1 the board at once. Roll after roll of tens I and twenties were flashed up and gradually vanished, with stacks of twenty dollar gold ! pieces produced from sundry brooches poek- cts. He generally invested one hundred to two hundred dollars in chips at 8 purchase, but about midnight put in seven hundred dollars at one chatter and braced up for bet ! ter luck.
 Victory was not for the invaders this time, however, and at ten minutes to two o'clock ! the last chip disappeared, the player closed the rack and rose to go, and in response to the inquiry of one of his friends if he was ready to quit, responded: ''We1l, I should say I am." He had dropped about three thousand dollars in the bank during the six teen hours he sat in the game. The amount probably exceeded this, but these are bank figures.
 Besides this crowd there were several pret ty heavy local players, who generally had the same luck, one of them losing four or five hundred dollars. It was the biggest game that has been seen in Laramie for a long time, and while the strangers were nice enough people, the sympathy of the audi enee was for once with the tiger. They came to shear and they went forth shorn. Lara mic people may be fooled once on the shell game, but on a square deal they can accom- modate travelling combinations with almost any sort of amusement they want.